year in review

UK public procurement in 2018

42,441 contracts and tenders were published by 2,587 public buyers in 2018, 28,467 of them naming a winning supplier. The typical contract was worth £100,000. That is 12% more than in 2017.

the biggest awarded contracts of 2018

Contracts published in 2018 that name a winning supplier, ranked by the value the buyer published, excluding those flagged as a maximum rather than a price. Figures are as published; gvtcx does not adjust them. A large contract is often a multi-year framework, so the value is what may be spent over its whole life — and where several suppliers share one framework, each is shown against the framework's full value rather than its own share.

month by month

• January 3,983
• February 3,859
• March 3,296
• April 3,081
• May 3,420
• June 3,748
• July 4,058
• August 3,729
• September 2,960
• October 3,847
• November 3,694
• December 2,766

week by week